Bad economies only recently started to affect elections - Kevin Drum

Bad economies only recently started to affect elections - Kevin Drum

Here's an interesting chart from the Financial Times that shows how well governing parties have done in elections through the years: The point of this chart is supposed to be that, for the first time ever, governing parties have lost every single election so far in 2024. People all over the globe wanted to throw the bums out, and they did. Kamala Harris was just an unfortunate victim of an unstoppable force. Fair enough. But something else caugh…